Label-attaching device



A. s. PARTRIDE Filet?. Nvv,r'4, 1925 I INVENTOR AT1-ORN EY lPatentedJuly 19, 1927.

UNITED sfrafrnsV ALVIN S. PARTRIDGE, OF RICHMOND HIGHLANDS, WASHINGTON.

LABEL-ATTACHING nnvIoE.

Application filed November 4,1926. Serial No. 146,190.-

This invention relates to a label attaching device for use, moreespecially, with rubber stamps; and its object is the improvement ofdevices of this character and in the method or means for securing thesame to an article without the use of any supplemental means such, forexample, as cement or wires.

The invention consists in the novel construction of a label attachingdevice and in the manner of applying the same, as hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,`

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention show-napplied to the body element of a rubber stamp. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the label attaching device, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of alabel, shown apart from a stamp. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical sectionillustrating the manner now preferred by me for applying the labelattaching device to the stamp body; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal verticalsection of Fig. 4 and Fig. 6 is an elevational 'i View of the deviceapplying tool illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5.

In carrying out my invention, the article, as the wooden body of arubber stamp, for example, to which a label is to be applied, isprovided in one of its faces, as 12, with a pair of grooves 13.l Thesegrooves are parallel with each other the planes of which being atsubstantially right angles to the body face 12 and longitudinally withrespect to the body. 14 represents a strip of paper or cardboard,hereinafter designated as the label, upon which identification matter ismarked or `printed and is preferably of a width equal to or less thanthe distance between the grooves 13. IThe label attaching means, as bestshown in Fig. 2, consists of a strip of transparent celluloid or othersuitable transparent material.

This celluloid strip is formed to provide a plane central portion 15between two depending flange elements, each of the flanges being ofsubstantially the shape of a letter V in transverse section.

Such flange provides an inner portion 16 extending downwardly from thestrip part 15 to a return bend 171 and thence upwardly in an outerportion 17. A flange portion For use, the l device is coupled to thebody for securing i the label thereto.

In practice, the inserting of the flange is Vadvantageously accomplishedby means of a stuffing tool, see Fig. 6, having at one end a rotaryroller 18 which is provided with two thin disk elements 19 which arearranged to track within the interstices between the folds 16 and 17 ofthe respective flanges.`

After locating the attaching device with respect to the label and thebody grooves 13, the stuffing tool is employed to have its roller 18travel over the device and lengthwise thereof'in a manner to cause thedisk elements of theroller to push the flanges of the device down intothe respective bodygrooves 13, as will be understood from an inspectionof Figs. 4 and 5.

The flanges may be engaged gradually by passing the roller to and froupon the de- Y vice. By thus forcing the flange elements into thegrooves of the body, the device is joined to `the body by the flangeelements Without the use of any cement-itious material or otherfastening means.

The provision of the outer flange or flap elements 17 of widths lessthan the associate ed flange elements 16 and also less than the depthsof the body grooves 13 afford outer edges of the respective flaps whichare adapted to take in the opposing wall surfaces of the respectivegrooves to further prevent the disengagementof the label attachingdevice.

The construction and manner of applying the device will be understoodfrom the fore going description.

What I claim is,-

1( The combination `with an article having parallel grooves therein, alabel, and a section, the side arms of the device being folded`v uponthemselves and adapted to be side arms of the device being folded uponforced Within said grooves into engaged rethemselves, said folded armsbeing adapted lation with the article. to be forced into the respectivegrooves into 10 2. The combination with an article proengaged relationwith the article. 5 vided With parallel grooves, of a label de- Signedat Seattle, Vashington, this 16th vice having substantially the shape fan day of October, 1926. inverted letter U in transverse section, theALVIN S. PARTRIDGE.

